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Monday, November 17, 2003 Trading... on the Blog?One of the end-time warnings that Jesus gave involved what's known as The Parable of the Talents.The point of the warning is that the servant who was given one talent (monetary unit of about twenty years of average wages, according to my ESV bible) was berated by the master "You wicked and slothful servant!" because he hadn't traded with his talent (like the ones given 5 and 2 talents had). And it was a serious reprimand, as he was called "worthless servant" and cast into "outer darkness" where "there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth". Not a nice fate! Now, someone has just suggested to me that the other 2 servants had been trading with what their Lord had given them, while the one had just hid (preserved it but he wasn't using it). He suggested that trading is the exchange with others of what has been given to us. "So often in the world we lose in the exchange, but in God's way we just gain. I see it as everything from trading with God-given thoughts to loving others with the love that Christ has for each one of us". I hope others here might share their understanding of this warning given by Jesus, but perhaps we could say that we're all "trading" even on this blog!? And on this note, it's a good question to ask ourselves why we're still here, as God has already equipped us with all that we need to fit into heaven and fellowship with holy God, by giving us His Spirit from the moment we become a child of God. Why not just move on, what's the point of all this time of struggle and being misunderstood, and hopefully even persecuted for our belief? Seems the answer was given by Jesus in Jn15 - "I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing". We're here to bear fruit for our master, God. For him to get his work done through us. And our part is to simply abide so that God can work through us. Because if we're not bearing fruit by abiding, then we're not trading with our gifted talents, and we're risking being labelled "worthless servant". That's my understanding, at least. So, maybe we can all achieve some worthwhile value-added to our accounts by trading here on our blog! # posted by geoff @ 11:18 am 0 comments
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